By Sara Bright A Frida Kahlo painting is going up for auction. El sueño (La cama). A beautiful, surreal, intensely personal self-portrait. And the art world…
By Maria Bregman You hear the news, and you see the headlines, and they all say the same thing. One of the founders of Moscow…
When a press release announces the appointment of a “botanical curator” at one of Europe’s most prestigious modern art museums, a certain degree of cognitive…
By Sara Bright Venue: National Portrait GalleryDates: 9 October 2025 – 11 January 202 preparedAccess on 29 October: Open to the public Step into the glamorous and transformative world of Cecil Beaton, one of…
By Maria Bregman, writer, litarary and art critic So, there are two auctions. In New York, at Christie’s, a monumental painting by the late Indian…
By Sara Bright So, they robbed the Louvre. In seven minutes. That’s all it took. You could barely make a proper cup of tea in…
On 23 October 2025, during Paris Art Week, a monumental blue canvas named California (IKB 71) went under the hammer at Christie’s. Measuring nearly four…
By Maria Bregman Another blockbuster show is coming. Renoir. A big one, this time. Drawings. Over a hundred of them at the Morgan Library in…
By Maria Bregman Art Basel has a new hire. A ‘Global Head of Collector and Institutional Relations’. It’s a very grand, very corporate-sounding title for…
By Katerina Karp, visual artist, volunteer, journalist, creative lead Sometimes, the most meaningful cultural projects begin not in boardrooms or curatorial meetings, but in quiet…